T HURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 #3 9 7 9 1 8 8 1 9 7 9 #3 THE HINDU DIARY OF EVENTS 2017 DELHI 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NATIONAL FEBRUARY aside the Karnataka High Court’s ac­ Assembly polls records 61% turnout. Feb. 1: The Union Budget for quittal of V.K. Sasikala, Ilavarasi and Feb. 27: Lowest turnout of 2017­18 is presented in the Lok Sab­ V.N. Sudhakaran in the dispropor­ 57.36% recorded in the fth phase of JANUARY ha by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. tionate assets case. Indicts former the U.P. Assembly polls. Jan. 1: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minis­ He cuts the minimum personal in­ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayala­ MARCH ter Akhilesh Yadav is named Samaj­ come tax rate to 5% from 10%. lithaa for conspiring to launder March 1: The Government noti­ wadi Party “national president” at a A corpus of 1 lakh crore for safe­ wealth. Appeals stand abated fol­ es the Specied Bank Notes (Cessa­ special “emergency national con­ ty and zero service charge on digital lowing her death. Restores ‘in toto’ tion of Liabilities) Act, 2017, which vention” in Lucknow. bookings major highlights of the trial court’s conviction of the three makes it a criminal oence to pos­ Jan. 3: The CBI arrests Trinamool Railway Budget presented in 12 on September 27, 2014. sess more than a certain number of Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay points in the main budget. Edappadi K. Palaniswami is elect­ the old 500 and 1,000 notes. in the Rose Valley Group chit fund The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes ed the AIADMK Legislature Party March 3: Noted Ambedkarite scam case. The carcass of a turtle that was unanimously the two NEET Bills. leader. Twenty leaders, including O. thinker Dr. Krishna Kirwale is found Jan. 4: Justice Jagdish Singh Khe­ washed ashore on Thiruvanmiyur Feb. 2: A special court in New Panneerselvam are expelled from murdered at his bungalow in Kolha­ har is sworn in as the 44th CJI. beach in Chennai after an oil spill. Delhi acquits former Union Telecom the primary membership of the pur, Maharashtra. The DMK general council elects Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his party. An Air India Boeing 777­200LR Stalin as the working president. BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, le­ brother Kalanithi Maran and the lat­ Feb. 15: AIADMK interim general completes an around­the­world Jan. 15: Kiran Doshi, a retired di­ gendary singer K.J. Yesudas, spiri­ ter's wife Kaveri Kalanithi of bribery secretary V.K. Sasikala surrenders at ight with an all­women crew and plomat and educationist from Guja­ tual guru Jaggi Vasudev, Prof. Udipi and money laundering charges in a special court in Bengaluru and is lands at the IGI airport in New Delhi. rat, is presented The Hindu Prize Ramachandra Rao, former Lok Sab­ the Aircel­Maxis deal case. jailed at the Central Prison at Parap­ March 4: Manipur records 84% 2016 for his book, Jinnah Often ha Speaker P.A. Sangma and former Feb. 3: The Supreme Court refus­ pana Agrahara. turnout in the rst phase of Assemb­ Came to Our House by Pulitzer Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Sun­ es to stay the Rajasthan High Court's ISRO’s workhorse PSLV places a ly polls. Prize­winning author Geraldine derlal Patwa (both posthumous) are December 9, 2016 judgment which record 104 spacecraft in their de­ Uttar Pradesh registers 57% vot­ Brooks at The Hindu Lit for Life fest conferred with Padma Vibhushan struck down a bill providing 5% quo­ sired orbits, in a single mission from ing in the sixth phase of Assembly in Chennai. awards by President Pranab ta for the Special Backward Classes. Sriharikota. polls. Jan. 16: The Supreme Court re­ Mukherjee. BSE Ltd., Asia's oldest stock ex­ The second phase of the U.P. As­ March 6: Navy decommissions vives hearing on a bunch of peti­ Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri change and the rst in India to get sembly polls registers 65.5% voting. INS Viraat, the world’s oldest air­ tions challenging the bifurcation of Sirindhorn, Cho S. Ramaswamy listed makes a strong debut on the Uttarakhand registers 68% tur­ craft carrier in service, at a ceremo­ Andhra Pradesh in 2014. (posthumous), Vishwa Mohan bourses. nout in Assembly polls. ny in Mumbai. Ritu Khoda and Vanita Pai are Bhatt, D.P. Dwivedi, Ratna Sundar Feb. 4: Punjab registers 78.62% Feb. 16: Edappadi K. Palaniswa­ March 7: Former Delhi Universi­ presented with The Hindu Young Maharaj, Swami Niranjana Nanda voter turnout in Assembly polls. mi is sworn in as Tamil Nadu’s 13th ty professor G.N. Saibaba is sen­ World­Goodbooks Best Author Saraswati and Tehemton Udwadia Eightythree per cent polling is re­ Chief Minister. tenced to life imprisonment for his Awards for the book Eye Spy Indian are awarded Padma Bhushan. corded in Goa Assembly elections. The probe panel headed by Jus­ Maoist links by a sessions court in Art. Singers Kailash Kher, Anuradha Feb. 5: V.K. Sasikala is "unani­ tice S. Rajeswaran begins inquiry in­ Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. Jan. 17: India becomes an asso­ Paudwal, mridangam maestro T.K. mously" elected AIADMK Legisla­ to the pro­ jallikattu protests in March 8: Over 60% voting is re­ ciate member of the Geneva­based Murthy, cricketer Virat Kohli, para­ ture Party leader. Tamil Nadu Chief Coimbatore and Salem. corded in the seventh and last phase CERN, the European Organization lympic athlete Mariappan Thanga­ Minister O. Panneerselvam faxes re­ Feb. 18: The AIADMK govern­ of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. for Nuclear Research. velu, Olympian Sakshi Malik, gym­ signation to the Governor. ment wins a trust vote in the Tamil Manipur registers 86% polling in the Jan. 20: The Centre clears the nast Deepa Karmakar, pioneering Feb. 6: Tata Sons EGM in Mum­ Nadu Assembly after violence in the second and nal phase. Tamil Nadu government’s proposal AIDS researcher Dr. Suniti Solomon bai removes former chairman Cyrus House by DMK MLAs leading to March 9: Eminent Konkani wri­ to promulgate an ordinance to hold (posthumous), journalist Bhawana Mistry as director from its board. their eviction. ter Mahabaleshwar Sail is selected jallikattu. Somaaya, chef Sanjeev Kapoor pro­ Feb. 8: The Supreme Court, in an Feb. 19: The third phase of UP for the Saraswati Samman 2016 for Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, the lone minent among 75 Padma Shri unprecedented move, issues a con­ Assembly polls records 61% turnout. his novel Hawthan. survivor of the September 29, 2006 awardees. tempt of court notice against Justice Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Ze­ The Lok Sabha passes the Mater­ massacre of four members of his fa­ The initial public oer of the C.S. Karnan of the Calcutta High liang resigns. nity Benet (Amendment) Bill, mily in Khairlanji village in Maha­ Bombay Stock Exchange is sub­ Court for his "scurrilous" letters Feb. 21: Natarajan Chandraseka­ 2016, extending paid maternity rashtra’s Bhandra district dies of a scribed 51.15 times. against sitting and retired judges. ran takes oce as Tata Sons leave to 26 weeks, up from 12 weeks, heart attack in Nagpur. Jan. 26: India celebrates its 68th Feb. 9: India formally requests Chairman. to women working in the organised Jan. 21: Over 39 passengers are Republic Day with a display of mili­ the U.K. to extradite absconding ty­ Feb. 22: Shurhozelie Liezietsu sector. killed and 50 injured following the tary might. coon Vijay Mallya. takes oath as the 11th Chief Minister March 10: The Rajya Sabha pass­ derailment of the engine and nine Jan. 28: Two cargo ships — MT The Supreme Court sends back to of Nagaland. es The Enemy Property (Amend­ coaches of Hirakhand Express Maple and MT Dawn Kanchipuram jail real estate baron Gopal Ansal for Feb. 23: The fourth phase of U.P. ment and Validation) Bill, 2016. bound for Bhubaneswar from Jag­ — collide at the outer anchorage of the death in 1997 of 59 persons in a March 11: The BJP gets three­ dalpur near Kuneru railway station Kamarajar Port in Ennore, Chennai re at Uphaar Cinema in New Del­ fourths majority in Uttar Pradesh in Vizianagaram district, Andhra leading to a massive spill of hazar­ hi’s Green Park area. His elder and Uttarakhand. Pradesh. dous oil and LPG. brother Sushil is spared. In Punjab, the Congress returns Jan. 23: As police move in to re­ Former Karnataka Chief Minister Feb. 11: The rst phase of Uttar to power after 10 years, winning 77 move protesters, the week­long jalli- S.M. Krishna quits the Congress. Pradesh Assembly polls records a seats out of 117. Goa and Manipur de­ kattu protests turn violent in many Jan. 29: Jats launch a stir for re­ 64.22% turnout. liver fractured mandates. cities in Tamil Nadu. servation in government jobs in Feb. 13: The Karnataka Assembly March 13: Manohar Parikkar re­ The Tamil Nadu Assembly at a Haryana. passes the Prevention of Cruelty to signs as Defence Minister. special sitting passes the Prevention Jan. 31: The Supreme Court de­ Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Jeevanantham Muthukrishnan, a of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu clines plea to stay the operation of Bill, 2017 to allow kambala and bul­ Crew members of Air India ight AI student of Jawaharlal Nehru Univer­ Amendment) Bill, 2017. the new jallikattu law enacted by lock cart racing. 173, on arrival at IGI Airport, New sity commits suicide in New Delhi. Jan. 25: NCP leader Shard Pawar, the Tamil Nadu government. Feb. 14: The Supreme Court sets Delhi. March 14: Manohar Parrikar is #3 9 7 9 1 8 8 1 9 7 9 #3 THE HINDU DELHI DIARY OF EVENTS 2017 THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE sworn in Goa Chief Minister.